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Orascom Telecom launches mobile search engine service
Qais Al Khateeb Feb 14, 2007 The Egyptian’s Orascom Telecom has launched their mobile version of search engine http://www.onkosh.com with .mobi top level domain extension onkosh.mobi that compatible for mobile devices.
“We are very excited about the imminent consumer launch of onkosh.mobi, the mobile version of Orascom’s new Arabic-language search portal, onkosh.com,” said Khaled Bichara, Orascom Telecom Holding Board Member & Chief Fixed and Portal Officer, Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA.
“We will be greatly enhancing this in the coming months on an ongoing basis with data from the dotMobi mobile content database, to give our Arabic users the full mobile web experience.
Onkosh is built from the ground up with the Arabic user in mind, utilizing advanced NLP (Natural Language Processing) to improve search results.”
Orascom Telecom interested to gain share in Internet search market in Middle East because of search advertising opportunity, which there are Google, Araby.com, and Ayna competing to offer Arabic search services with different verticals. Also the mobile search market is increasing in MENA region due to high mobile penetration.
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February 17th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Nice post, mobile search is growing everywhere and the first movers are definitely going to have a huge advantages.
June 1st, 2007 at 7:00 am
Pls. tell me all details, owner name, address of
cell no. 966561287558
June 16th, 2007 at 9:30 am
From
M . A . ISLAM .
Dhaka, bangladesh.
bdinventiveinvasion@yahoo.com
Sub: your branch office banglalink (dhaka bangladesh ) HAS
DONE CHEAT WITH ME BY MOBILE NUM ; 01911 91 92 93 .
TO,
ORASCOM TELECOM. EGYPT
Dear sir,
i have the honour to inform you that i am very fond of your mobile company Banglalink ( dhaka , bangladesh / ORASCOM ). I am a electrical engineer . I have to use two banglalink mobile number AND . But Banglalink has transfered my mobile number 01911 919293 to unknown person. I have purchased this number by $ 1000 .
I have invented a MARVELOUS / NOVELTY engineering technology which will be submitted to nobel comittee this year . I hope that i shall be Nobel prize winner.
I hoped that I shall use my faverite number 01911 919293 after Nobel prize winning this year !! But all is hopeless.
How can i return my mobile number ? Please help me all in ways. Many thanks for your kindly helps.
Yours faithfully ,
M . A . ISLAM .
see e-mail address.